Thursday, July 29, 2004

200 French Jews emigrate to Israel

Ever wonder why we have so many miscalculations in America?  Why is the word anarchist negative?  Why is everything good or bad?  Why do people picket abortion clinics when they could feed a starving child?  Why do they ban gay marriage when businessmen and lawyers have always been able to choose same-sex legal partners.  Maybe it has something to do with the Puritans.  Imagine a culture where half of your thoughts are forbidden, and the winners are always chosen by God, the losers always undeserving of Him.  imagine you have a job, for which you need a car, which you pay for using money from your job.  It works out that most people commute and work 3-5 hours a day to earn the automotive priviledge of working.  Scratch all that... if I blame it on the TV networks I'll have better links.

...maybe it has something to do with the TV.
The great thing is that while TV news specializes in delivering selective information in an entertaining and highly profitable way, they have used their talents to post this kind of news on the internet.  The great thing about this kind of news is either confirms your opinions or angers your sensibility.  One hardly ever pauses to consider the various merits of a TV news brief.  This leaves lots of brain capacity for absorbing advertising.  One such article by ABC news, which was clearly intended to anger me.  The only actual newsworthy note is that Sharon 'softened' his stance, saying now that Jews should to Israel, "not out of fear but because it is their homeland".  I'm sure that what he meant to say was that the incident that prompted his plea for French Jews to escape turned out to be a hoax.  Though I can understand why ABC news doesn't want this story reported in a thorough manner.  What if someone read the news and couldn't immediately label the major parties;  Protective Sharon, festive Jews, racist French, doo-doo head Chirac.
Even the independent media, while understanding the need for full coverage and reasoning, gets the point wrong.  People all over the world hate each other.  They are not born hating... they are not taught to hate by their fathers.  They hate because of a fundamental flaw in democratic capitalism: poverty.  Check the depression era, Weimar Republic Germany, arguably one of the most democratic (thus dangerous) governments ever.  Muslims don't hate Jews.  They just happen to be poor in areas where Jews do better.  Moving rich Europeans to a neighborhood where many Muslims have had their houses bulldozed won't decrease ethnic hatred.
Of course this is all one sided, and I've presented you, the reader with 3 options (only 1 better that the TV news).  What I have said can confirm your opinions, it can anger your sensibilities, or you could have stopped reading at the first paragraph and turned on the TV.

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